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[Bigfella237]

No, V8 Torana will be the perfect length!

[Cook]

Mat, I was referring to the car taking off if it was accidentally in gear or slipped into gear.  Refer my earlier post which you may have missed.  I have a pedal kickdown switch and tailshaft that may suit but can't get to then for a couple of weeks if that suits.  Cheers Ron

[Cook]

Cheers,

 

I be in touch in about 2 weeks time, when I will be able to get at it.  Only good thing with the Stromberg is I seem to have more Vac ports than you, but not sure if that is good or bad.  LOL.  Have fun in the meantime.  Ron

[Bigfella237]

Disregard my concern over the torque converter bolts, I can see at least one nut and bolt is done up (and there's only 3 of them) so assume the other two will be done up as well.

 

Hmm... a green drive gear, well that's different! I've never seen any mention of a green drive gear for the Aussie boxes before, the only ones I have listed are:

 

Red - 7 tooth

White - 8 tooth

Blue - 9 tooth

Yellow - 10 tooth

 

The only green one I have listed is a 9 tooth gear for the American boxes (Muncie / Saginaw / Powerglide / TH350), I wonder if they fit and somebody has been playing with it?

 

Can you see in there well enough to turn the slip yoke by hand and count the number of teeth? You're counting the number of new teeth that start on one edge, you will need to mark one of the teeth with a texta or similar so you know where you started from.

 

If it is a 9 tooth drive gear, use your red driven (cable) gear, that should be close enough (works out to a reading of 103 when you're actually doing 100).

[gtrboyy]

Clean that tailshaft,slip yoke in THEN pull back into diff...after that check seal groove worn in slip yoke lines up...main difference between 6cyl & 8 cyl is size of universals.

 

Those cups for rear uni will be ok as long as pins didn't fall out.

 

Green gear most likely commodore probably sle with 2.60 diff...will look it up if can remember where info is.

 

https://www.google.c...jJTTphx3JMnENew

 

Above link on right punch in tyre size,the drive/driven gears & diff ratio.

 

Yep looks like missing flex plat bolts too

Modulator hose has to be tight fit so no vacuum leaks

Edited by gtrboyy, 05 March 2017 - 03:34 PM.

[EunUCh]

The nipple on the vac. modulator does not need a clamp to hold the rubber tube on , see how it has a raised area where the tube

pushes on ! , that is what holds the tube on , originally there was just a short piece of tube that fitted on to the modulator , the plot thickens , it was then connected to a steel line that led up to the fitting on manifold and connected by another short rubber tube.

 

They say you shouldn't just run a rubber tube all the way up because under full vac. the story goes that the tube will "choke off' and affect gear changes, how true it is i don't know ?

 

The oil cooler fittings are a pain to get to , they too were originally steel but i can't see too much of a problem just running a half decent

rubber line that will handle a bit of temp. up to a cooler , it does not need to be high pressure.

 

 

 

[gtrboyy]

Eunuch it's missing fair amount of parts,likely vb 253 mixed with odd bunch of parts parts

 

Most trimatics have 3 bolts + nuts,high tensile things.

 

Hose to modulator apparently same size as vac advance on dissy but practically force the the on it's tight fit...will be ok temp fix,same as transmission hose looped around to bridge those cooler lines

 

TBH always used 6cyl shafts to get driving cars driving although been years vaguely remember majority parts interchange so should fit when bolted in

 

Yoke probably goes in further than you think dont forget with suspension travel & drive movement it slides further in.

 

Could be engine brackets/mounts bolted in wrongly....usually something simple like lift & reset...who knows yet.

 

Bit annoying at amount of simple little parts missing or just what previous owners did to it.

 

Think green gear is same 9 tooth as blue not much info found on them think green 253 sle trimatic(reason 15" rims) 308 sle(yellow gear) BUT not much info out there.

[gtrboyy]

Cant tell 100% untill clean up & bolt tailshaft in.

 

My guess is if green gear 9 tooth you'll need yellow 24 tooth gear with 3.36 diff & 245/60/14 tyre means 1% underdriven(slow) speedo

 

I'd say with quick guess  all bolt ons missing off auto from those pics

 

modulator pipe

flex plate bolts

trans cooler lines + new hose

crossmember bolts/mountr bolts + spacer

talishaft u-bolts

[EunUCh]

There is a fair amount of stuff that needs to be considered , firstly i would be cleaning everything up a bit so that things can be identified a bit easier

The slip yoke into the trans. as said needs some movement , can't remember off hand how much it moves when the diff. moves from one extreme to the other but it is not much (15mm max at a vague guess ?)

 

There should be 3 bolts with nuts that hold the converter to the flex plate (the toothed bit) , one is pictured but it would be wise to check that the others are there as well , they are not an ordinary bolt.

 

One thing that might be a little concerning is that the cooling lines were not plugged ?

 

A bit side tracked , if my ol mate will get out of the pub and talk sense i might be able to see what colour gear is in the trans. that is connected to the starfire that he will never use , don't bank on it , and the last time i checked the junk pile of autos for such thing there was a seven footer of  one of Skaps mates living there so that won't happen

 

[gtrboyy]

^^ Cleanliness makes life easier!!!

 

Once you pop them cups back onto tailshaft then slip it back into diff add u-bolts 'probably' will be right one...you'll know as there groove worn into yoke over time will be close.

 

Kinda think it's correct...not sure wtf that metal tab is usually just the u-bolts & diff yoke holds it all together.

 

From pics mounts looked close enough....just pop cups back on that universal joint & bolt it up,no bolts tape it together either will fall apart or land on ya head haha

 

Write up WTB checklist here see if some of the peeps can help you out

 

Also show us what parts you have left for car.

Edited by gtrboyy, 05 March 2017 - 07:33 PM.

[EunUCh]

I think the metal tab was only a "lock tab " that went under the nuts and was bent up over a flat on the nut that held the U bolts to the yolk to stop those dreaded little factory lock nuts coming off for safety reasons ?

 

Edit, i think you will find that the 6 cyl. universal j's will be fine on a 253 with 336 , there are 202's out there making more than a stock 253 and they don't seem to have too many problems ?

Edited by EunUCh, 05 March 2017 - 07:55 PM.

[gtrboyy]

Over-thinking & worrying this stuff too much,..at moment just trying to get all together & running...no where near drivable yet lol.

 

Get it together as best as possible THEN go over with fine tooth comb.

 

Not seen those tabs in [email protected] garage burnout usually blow diff to smithereens before drop shaft